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TIL South Park aired an episode titled “Band in China”… which resulted in them being banned in China.

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GAD7Q TIL Raccoons can make more than 200 different sounds
VMLGp TIL: Juul had to ban their products within their own office, resorting employees to use a tent for smoke or Juul breaks
0YY1 TIL that Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”
Q4vX TIL Google secretly runs a research facility called Google X somewhere in the Bay Area.
rRNd4 To strain out the nasty stuff we breathe in. It’s like an air filter in your house, says Justin Turner, an otolaryngologist (short, sort of, for otorhinolaryngologist, Greek for ear (oto), nose (rhino), and throat (laryng)) at Stanford University. Nose hairs trap dirt, viruses, bacteria and toxins until we blow them out, sneeze, or swallow.